iSpring Suite Changelog

What's new in iSpring Suite 8.7.0 Build 20205

Sep 1, 2017

Improved conversion quality of video files inserted on the slides
Advanced start of Content Library
Improved option of adding resources from locations with long paths
Fixed video recording issue from the front camera on Surface Pro
Fixed Video lecture player display after closing the Full screen mode in Mozilla FireFox
Quizmaker: Fixed display of the answer choices with the line breaks
Quizmaker: Fixed display of the answer choices when re-taking the quiz
Quizmaker: Fixed display of the dialogue window with the quiz taker’s info

New in iSpring Suite 8.5.0 Build 17498 (Dec 2, 2016)

NEW CONVERSATION SIMULATION TOOL:
Design interactive dialogue simulations to train your employees' communication skills in a safe environment. Building a scenario doesn’t take long: simply create a conversation script, select a character and background, and record voiceovers for interlocutors and feedback messages.
Detailed completion report:
Now you can monitor all students’ decisions and reply choices throughout the simulation in a detailed completion report. The reports can be collected in your LMS, or sent to an email or server.
Hyperlinks in dialogue scenes:
Enhance character speech and feedback messages with hyperlinks to useful resources: certain chapters of your course, guides, videos, and other content that students may need.
Spell-check:
Now the editor can automatically check spelling: it underlines errors and suggests possible corrections.
NEW SCREEN RECORDER:
iSpring Suite introduces a new screen capture function, with which you can record screencasts and insert them into your courses. The built-in iSpring Cam includes a complete set of functions for screencasts, such as audio recording, cursor highlighting, mouse click sound effects, and more.
NEW VIDEO LECTURE PLAYER:
The new 50/50 Video Lecture Player allows you to simultaneously display presentation slides and video narration, correctly placing the emphasis between them. The player can be customized: choose which bars and buttons to show, pick the color scheme, and change text labels for captions, tooltips and messages within the player.
NEW AUDIO/VIDEO EDITOR:
Now you will be able to fine-tune the audio and video narrations for your course. iSpring Suite 8 now contains an audio and video editor, which contains a complete set of functions for quickly creating professional narrations: deleting fragments of audio and video, background noise removal, audio fade-in/fade-out, and much more.
UPDATED QUIZ EDITOR:
Creating interactive quizzes is faster and easier than ever before, thanks to the new visual question editing mode. Now you can customize the design of several questions simultaneously: modify the layout, adjust the color theme, or set the background.
Re-Taking the Course Based on Quiz Results:
With this feature, if a student fails a unit test, they can be redirected to the beginning of the unit. After they review the unit, they can try to pass the test again.
Sending Quiz Results to Student’s Email:
Students’ quiz results now can be sent to their emails. This allows students to track their progress and reveal strengths and weaknesses.
Customizable Feedback for Quizzes:
Customize the color scheme of your feedback messages and enhance them with images, formulas and audio. Set up default feedback for all the questions, or simply turn it off when it’s not necessary.
Audio Narration Recording for Quizzes:
Now you can record voice overs for your question slides and feedback messages. New integrated audio editor will let you easily fine-tune recorded and imported audio narrations.

New in iSpring Suite 8.3.0 Build 14026 (Apr 12, 2016)

New in iSpring Suite 8.0.0 Build 11501 (Nov 26, 2015)

New in iSpring Suite 7.1.0 Build 7703 (Apr 25, 2015)

New in iSpring Suite 7.1.0 Build 7514 (Mar 24, 2015)

LET YOUR CONTENT GO VIRAL WITH ISPRING CLOUD:
iSpring Cloud lets you distribute your iSpring content on the fly. Providing a variety of sharing methods, it gives you an opportunity to instantly share a presentation without leaving the iSpring interface.
Share via direct link, email or social media:
You can copy a direct link to your presentation and paste it anywhere you like: for example, an instant messaging client, ad banner, or SMS. Or choose one of the hot tabs to share via email or social media right away.
Embed presentations in a website or blog:
Let your webpage of choice interact with your visitors by showing them an engaging, media-rich presentation you have created with iSpring Suite.
Track course viewing statistics:
It’s not simply sharing your content, it’s also measuring its popularity and effectiveness. See what kind of courses are the most viewed and create content your viewers will surely like.
BUILT-IN POWERPOINT TO YOUTUBE CONVERTER:
Convert PowerPoint to Video:
After converting your presentation to an .mp4 file, you get all the PowerPoint effects accurately preserved in video format. And you can either hand out those copies or simply save to your hard drive.
Instantly upload courses to YouTube:
Now you can put your PowerPoint presentations on YouTube right from the iSpring publishing window. No need to save a video to your computer: just sign in to your account right there and voilá!
MOBILE SUPPORT:
With iSpring your content goes mobilewith just one click of the “Publish” button. No programming required. The whole presentation is prepared in the PowerPoint environment. Flash + HTML5 universal format makes your PPTs available in virtually all browsers and mobile devices.
Create Once – View Everywhere:
You don’t have to create extra versions of your project to be viewed on various devices. After the conversion, your original presentation turns into an all-mode piece of content and perfectly displays on all screens.
Responsive Design:
Create cross-platform content available on virtually any device: desktops, laptops, iPads, iPhones, Android and Windows devices. Be sure that your presentation will look equally impressive regardless of device choice.
Adaptive Player:
Your content will remain just as intended on any device and any screen thanks to iSpring adaptive player. It instantly adapts to screen size and orientation and provides edge-to-edge content representation.
Multi-Device Preview:
There’s no need to have all the possible devices to check how your content displays. iSpring’s preview mode allows to see how exactly your presentation will look on different devices. Preview your course on a variety of devices ranging from desktops to smartphones in a single window right in iSpring Suite.
Free iPad and Android Application:
iSpring Viewer easily delivers your content for iPads and Android tablets. The app empowers your course takers to access their assignments from their gadgets and even more – to download content and take a course anytime anywhere, even when offline. Poor Internet connection is beaten!
CHARACTERS:
Make your address to learners more personal by adding vitality to your learning materials with characters. Vitalize your content and let it speak for itself!
Character Library:
You are free to choose from a wide range of personages, either illustrated or photographic. Choose gestures, expressions and poses you need. All you need is take a short tour over the character gallery.
Character Wizard:
You can easily create a new character with free Character Wizard by iSpring. Simply upload the images of your choice to iSpring Suite 7, and they will be saved in your character collection. Choose the perfect character to fully reflect your ideas.
QUIZZES AND SURVEYS:
Build smart interactive quizzes and surveys to supplement the whole course or create a self-contained assessment to keep up with your learners’ level of knowledge.
Quizzes That Play on Any Device:
Create smart quizzes in a mobile-ready format in no time. Quizzes and surveys created with iSpring instantly adapt to screen size and orientation of virtually all mobile devices including iPhones and iPads.
23 Question Types for Full-Scale Testing:
Choose from 11 graded and 12 survey questions to engage your ambitious learners and test their knowledge to the full. Test your course takers in a far more entertaining way!
Updated Quiz Editor:
Experience the smooth process of quiz creation with our newly refined quiz editor. Set audio to play in the background, remove media controls and define the number of possible repeats - all with one convenient interface.
Fully Customizable Question Design:
With iSpring Suite 7 you can make each question look the way you like. Apply question layouts, color themes and animations in the intuitive and easy-to-use Slide View tool.
Fine-Tune the Look of the Quiz Player:
Not just slides, but also the player itself will look as you envision: choose a color preset or fine-tune the color of each player element manually. You can rename any text label or translate it into another language if needed. Bring out the topic of the quiz by defining what will be displayed on the top bar.
Divide Questions into Groups:
To make the testing clearer and more convenient for quiz takers, you can divide all the questions into thematic blocks. Create different question groups for each course unit.
Import Questions from Excel:
Quickly turn your .xls files into cool iSpring quizzes. Leverage all the previously created quizzes and surveys and utilize your question database.
Set up Personalized Feedback:
You can set up custom feedback message for each answer choice. Reward your learners for correct answers or prompt them to try again. Provide them with additional information that will help them to find the right answer.
Advanced Branching Scenarios:
For each question or answer choice you can set up different outcomes. For example, if a quiz taker has given the right answer, let him go to the next slide. If he was wrong, you can put him through additional leading questions to eventually lead him to the right answer.
Rich Media Insertion:
With iSpring you can create a truly engaging experience for your learners. Create audio and video questions, add hyperlinks and easily insert images and equations for both questions and answer choices.
Flexible Scoring System:
Set point- or percentage-based passing score. Award custom points for each respective question and answer choices. Set your rules to deduct points for incorrect answers or not answered questions. If your learners give a partial answer, you can provide partial credit.
Your Unique Testing Rules:
Use testing rules to maximize your test’s efficiency: limit the number of attempts, specify time limit for the entire quiz or for each question. Apply randomization to present a different subset of questions to each student.
RICH MEDIA INTERACTIONS:
Captivate your audience with interactive spectacular content. Make most of interaction templates – add impressive transitions and create the unique experience for your viewers.
Interactions for All Devices:
Deliver your interactive content for mobile devices’ owners. Be sure that all of interactions will play perfectly on any device and any screen thanks to the perfect support of a mobile-friendly HTML5 format.
Customizable Interaction Player:
Adjust the player colors to match your content and the interaction of your choice. Create a truly captivating piece of content by fine-tuning the perfect combination of interaction template and the player.
NARRATIONS & MULTIMEDIA:
Your learning content becomes even more comprehensive and engaging with video explanations. Record or import presenter video, sync it with slides and animations – create a truly effective video lecture. Additionally, you can enhance your courses with voice overs, YouTube videos and Flash movies.
Mass Import of Multimedia:
Save time on creating a narration for your e-Learning course: upload numerous audio and video files at once. Thanks to the automatic timing, all you have to do is fine-tune the narration to supplement the course.
Improved Narration Editor:
Recording and synchronizing narrations has become even easier. With iSpring’s conveniently redesigned timeline even a non-professional can easily create an audio or video narration for a presentation.
ADVANCED PRESENTATION PLAYER:
Enjoy iSpring Universal Player with fully customizable elements and intuitive interface. Once you fine-tune the player, you get a perfect finishing touch that will make your presentation stand out.
Managing the Templates:
The Universal Player comes with a ready-to-use set of templates for various content types. You can either choose a predefined template or create a custom one by adding or removing elements and customizing colors, text labels and messages.
Branching Scenarios:
Create your custom course structure by defining what slides will appear after clicking Next and Previous buttons. This will increase the effectiveness of the whole e-Learning course.
Navigation Rules:
Gain the full control of how slides of your presentation are viewed. Set up your own navigation rules: you can restrict going back to previously viewed slides or skipping certain chapters.
PUBLISHING OPTIONS:
iSpring Suite 7 provides a variety of publishing options and allows to accurately prepare your course for different purposes. Post it on the Internet or publish for an LMS as a SCORM package.
Combined Flash + HTML5 Format:
Presentation will be published in an innovative combined format that allows to view presentation in any browser and on any device: desktop, laptop, tablet or smart phone.
HTML5 Output:
Create mobile-ready content. Publish your presentation to HTML5, and it will available for viewing on all mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, Android and Windows devices.
Broad LMS Compatibility:
Perfect support of SCORM and AICC standards ensures that e-Learning content generated with iSpring Suite quickly integrates with your e-Learning environment. iSpring Suite 7 also supports the Tin Can API that enables to collect data from multiple sources.
One-Click Publishing to iSpring LMS:
Publishing your content to iSpring Learn LMS takes only one click on the “Publish” button. Voila! Your course is available for public or private sharing and you can easily track your viewers’ detailed statistics.
Section 508 Compliance:
You can adapt your e-Learning courses and presentations to special needs of your learners. Thanks to iSpring's support of Section 508, your content is now optimized for screen readers.
iSpring app for iPad and Android:
With iSpring Viewer all of your e-Learning courses and quizzes are available on iPad anytime and anywhere. The application allows learners to download their assignments right to their iPads and take course whenever they want. Even when no Internet connection is available.

New in iSpring Suite 7.0.0 Build 5775 (Jun 5, 2014)

Characters:
Make your address to learners more personal by adding vitality to your learning materials with characters.
Character Library:
You are free to choose from a wide range of personages, either illustrated or photographic.
Character Wizard:
You can create a new character with Character Wizard by iSpring.
Quizzes and Surveys:
Build smart interactive quizzes and surveys to supplement the whole course or create a self-contained assessment to keep up with your learners’ level of knowledge.
Quizzes That Play on Any Device:
Create smart quizzes in a mobile-ready format. Quizzes and surveys created with iSpring instantly adapt to screen size and orientation of virtually all mobile devices including iPhones and iPads.
Updated Quiz Editor:
Set audio to play in the background, remove media controls and define the number of possible repeats - all with one convenient interface.
Fully Customizable Question Design:
You can make each question look the way you like. Apply question layouts, color themes and animations in the intuitive and easy-to-use Slide View tool.
Fine-Tune the Look of the Quiz Player:
Choose a color preset or fine-tune the color of each player element manually. You can rename any text label or translate it into another language if needed. Bring out the topic of the quiz by defining what will be displayed on the top bar.
Divide Questions into Groups:
To make the testing clearer and more convenient for quiz takers, you can divide all the questions into thematic blocks. Create different question groups for each course unit.
Import Questions from Excel:
Quickly turn your .xls files into cool iSpring quizzes. Leverage all the previously created quizzes and surveys and utilize your question database.
Flexible Scoring System:
Set point- or percentage-based passing score. Award custom points for each respective question and answer choices. Set your rules to deduct points for incorrect answers or not answered questions. If your learners give a partial answer, you can provide partial credit.
Your Unique Testing Rules:
Use testing rules to maximize your test’s efficiency: limit the number of attempts, specify time limit for the entire quiz or for each question. Apply randomization to present a different subset of questions to each student.
Rich Media Interactions:
Captivate your audience with interactive spectacular content. Make most of interaction templates – add impressive transitions and create the unique experience for your viewers.
Interactions for All Devices:
Deliver your interactive content for mobile devices’ owners. Be sure that all of interactions will play perfectly on any device and any screen thanks to the perfect support of a mobile-friendly HTML5 format.
Customizable Interaction Player:
Adjust the player colors to match your content and the interaction of your choice. Create a truly captivating piece of content by fine-tuning the perfect combination of interaction template and the player.
Narrations & Multimedia:
Your learning content becomes even more comprehensive and engaging with video explanations. Record or import presenter video, sync it with slides and animations – create a truly effective video lecture. Additionally, you can enhance your courses with voice overs, YouTube videos and Flash movies.
Presenter Video and Audio: Record and Sync Easily:
Mass Import of Multimedia
Save time on creating a narration for your e-Learning course: upload numerous audio and video files at once. Thanks to the automatic timing, all you have to do is fine-tune the narration to supplement the course.
Improved Narration Editor:
Recording and synchronizing narrations has become even easier. With iSpring’s conveniently redesigned timeline even a non-professional can easily create an audio or video narration for a presentation.
Better Video Support:
Take full advantage of video in your e-Learning course. iSpring Suite 7 uses the most advanced video codec, which ensures better quality of inserted video with smaller output file size.
Advanced Presentation Player
Fully Customizable Appearance:
Flexible customization options of the player allow fine-tuning every detail of the player, from layout and panels to colors and text labels. Make the player a valuable addition to your presentation design.
Branching Scenarios:
Create your custom course structure by defining what slides will appear after clicking Next and Previous buttons. This will increase the effectiveness of the whole e-Learning course.
Navigation Rules:
Gain the full control of how slides of your presentation are viewed. Set up your own navigation rules: you can restrict going back to previously viewed slides or skipping certain chapters.
Specific E-Learning Features:
iSpring provides you with all the must-have features needed for creating a really compelling and efficient e-Learning course.
Publishing Options:
iSpring Suite 7 provides a variety of publishing options and allows to accurately prepare your course for different purposes. Post it on the Internet or publish for an LMS as a SCORM package.
Combined Flash + HTML5 Format:
Presentation will be published in an innovative combined format that allows to view presentation in any browser and on any device: desktop, laptop, tablet or smart phone.
HTML5 Output:
Publish your presentation to HTML5, and it will available for viewing on all mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, Android and Windows devices.
iSpring App for iPad:
All e-Learning courses and quizzes are available on iPad anytime and anywhere. The application allows learners to download their assignments right to their iPads and take course whenever they want.

iSpring Suite Changelog

What's new in iSpring Suite 8.7.0 Build 20205

New in iSpring Suite 8.5.0 Build 17498 (Dec 2, 2016)

New in iSpring Suite 8.3.0 Build 14026 (Apr 12, 2016)

New in iSpring Suite 8.0.0 Build 11501 (Nov 26, 2015)

New in iSpring Suite 7.1.0 Build 7703 (Apr 25, 2015)

New in iSpring Suite 7.1.0 Build 7514 (Mar 24, 2015)

New in iSpring Suite 7.0.0 Build 5775 (Jun 5, 2014)

New in iSpring Suite 6.2.0 (Aug 23, 2012)

New in iSpring Suite 6.1.0 (Jul 4, 2012)